Titre : | Can't find my way home. America in the Great stoned age, 1945-2000 |
Titre traduit : | (Je ne peux pas trouver le chemin de la maison. L'amérique à la grande époque de la défonce 1954-2000) |
Auteurs : | TORGOFF M. |
Type de document : | Livre |
Editeur : | New York ; London : Simon & Schuster, 2004 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7432-3010-0 |
Format : | 545 p. |
Note générale : |
New York, London, Simon & Schuster, 2004, 545 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés HISTOIRE ; PRODUIT ILLICITE ; POLITIQUE ; LUTTE ; CULTUREL ; CANNABIS ; MDMA-ECSTASY ; MUSIQUEThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : The book is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned age. The author begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging Beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a New Frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are A.Ginsberg, T.Leary, R.Stone, W.Gravy, Gce Slick, O. Stone, P.Coyote, D. Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But the book does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. He neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. (From the editor' s abstract) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 480 |
Affiliation : | Etats-Unis. United States. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 506192 |
Centre Emetteur : | 05 Marmottan |
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